Making a better world : public housing, the Red scare, and the direction of modern Los Angeles /
With sharp historical perspective, Making a Better World traces the rise and fall of a public housing ethic in Los Angeles and its impact on the city's built environment. Don Parson's examination not only gives us the recent history of a city but also opens up a new debate on a current nat...
Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
Idioma: | Inglés |
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Minneapolis, Minn. : [Bristol] :
University of Minnesota Press ; [University Presses Marketing, distributor],
©2005.
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Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- The new day of decent housing : building a public housing program
- Homes for heroes : public housing during World War II
- David and Goliath : the struggle to expand the public housing program
- The "headline-happy public housing war" : public housing and the Red Scare
- "Old town, lost town, shabby town, crook town" : Bunker Hill and the modern cityscape
- This modern marvel : Chavez Ravine and the politics of modernism.